Escalating Money spend in College Football

[stinger78]

GT is a world class academic institute. Sorry, but getting the right students to build a football fan base should not even enter into the equation for student admissions.

I don’t disagree at all. IMPO, this is just why we cannot consistently compete fully at the highest level of college athletics.

 

[cpf2001]

While being a millionaire might not hold the same weight that it did a few decades ago, it still matters, a lot. As a young person (26) I can promise you that the word millionaire still carries weight. You and a lot of people on this board are older, successful people who have grown your worth and been surrounded by other successful people for many years. Your perception of wealth and what is considered normal is much different from what the average person sees as “normal.” Less than 10% of the US population is a “millionaire”, and less than 10% of that group is under the age of 35. That means less than 1% of the U.S. population is both under 35 and a millionaire. Debating far being a “millionaire” gets you in today’s world compared to the past is a very different point than saying the word carries no weight. The overwhelming majority of people in the United States will never be a millionaire, and most will never even come close.

I suspect the word still carrying weight is a subtle factor working against younger generations. And especially the phrase “six figure salary.” There’s an anchoring effect from things like “six figures” or “millionaire” etc that hasn’t kept up with inflation but makes those salaries a bit more inflation-resistant. E.g. “I would’ve negotiated harder but it was still six figures” now vs “I wanted to get them to go from 93k to 100k” in the past.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

I don’t disagree at all. IMPO, this is just why we cannot consistently compete fully at the highest level of college athletics.

What I like is that Brent Key thinks otherwise. He may be a dreamer, and he may be proven wrong, but he is all in on the idea that excellent schools can have excellent sports programs.

 

[forensicbuzz]

GT is a world class academic institute. Sorry, but getting the right students to build a football fan base should not even enter into the equation for student admissions.

I don't think he was implying we should. He was making a statement about the changing culture within the world-class universities. I think the wording was a little unfortunate.

 

[stinger78]

What I like is that Brent Key thinks otherwise. He may be a dreamer, and he may be proven wrong, but he is all in on the idea that excellent schools can have excellent sports programs.

They can if the admin will cooperate. If you’ll lol back at my initial assertion, I was speaking more to a large, passionate fanbase. I misspoke in that last statement.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

They can if the admin will cooperate. If you’ll lol back at my initial assertion, I was speaking more to a large, passionate fanbase. I misspoke in that last statement.

I hold none of your irresponsible comments against you.

 

[stinger78]

I hold none of your irresponsible comments against you.

Great! Then you have nothing to hold against me.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

Great! Then you have nothing to hold against me.

Consider me your safe space.

 

[stinger78]

Consider me your safe space.

 

[Heisman's Ghost]

I can admit that I am in favor of student athletes getting a 'piece of the action' given the amount of money involved to watch them play a game. I am no worried that we may all be in for a rude awakening as this money train will eventually dry up. What will we have left with respect to college sports when that happens?

Don't care as I am not financially involved in this semi professional college athletics. The whole thing can go down the tubes in a cesspool of corruption.

 

[Heisman's Ghost]

It wasn’t for whatever reason. It’s because GT is smarter than Auburn. Auburn paid him as if he is an elite WR. GT knows wha5 his worth actually is. When the number went above that we said good bye. Pay linemen not WR’s or DB’s.

If Georgia Tech is going to pay money, it should be for linemen on both sides of the ball first. Small, fast wide receivers are a dime a dozen as are defensive backs. Watching Notre Dame against UGA it was obvious that the difference between the two teams besides the Irish excellent special teams and the two turnovers was just about constant pressure on UGA's quarterback who was sacked four times and was hurried and hit almost constantly.

 

[Heisman's Ghost]

The current strategy is to wait list legacies and admit others in order to grow the alumni base. Since legacies are guaranteed admission if they maintain a 3.0 GPA at another school, they mistakenly believe the legacies will.come to Tech after going to another college. So, they are wait listed. The problem is those students end up making friends and build ties to the other school, so they do not end up transferring. Instead of building a stronger alumni base, they build a weaker one. Just a dumb strategy.

Incredibly short sighted and stupid.

 

[MacDaddy2]

Incredibly short sighted and stupid.

It is an admission office that clearly doesn't get "it". They did that whole wait list guaranteed admission in year 2 BS with her, she went to another ACC school, loved it and never looked back.